Writing Corner

I’ve started wearing a lot of dresses and skirts lately, which is new for me. My own body-image has not always allowed me to wear clothes that attract attention and make me look particularly feminine (Venus). I wear dresses and skirts that are, above all, comfortable. Today I wore my most comfortable dress, a stretchy […]

THE SIGN OF CANCER AND BIOLOGICAL KARMA Undoubtedly we all have the Sign of Cancer in our natal chart; we all have a Moon and an IC. Regardless of being more or less a “Cancer type of person” we all have a family history, a past background, a mother image, a set of memories indexed […]

Grand Trine in Water Signs, Cancer, Scorpio and Pisces: An Opportunity for Healing – June/July 2013 During the last few years we have experienced turmoil and unrest with many unexpected and deep changes taking place in society and within our personal lives, courtesy of the on-going Uranus – Pluto Square providing a backdrop for unexpected […]

Whenever I think about astrology and vocation my mind always goes to Oscar. He was a young Swedish man in his mid-twenties whom I met a few years ago in Stockholm and with whom, as it often happens when travelling, we shared a brief conversation and a coffee while sitting in adjacent tables in the […]

7th Century Churches on Skellig Michael in County Kerry, Ireland. “All the darkness in the world cannot extinguish the light of a single candle.” ― St. Francis of Assisi, The Little Flowers of St. Francis of Assisi When I first heard that there was to be a new Pope, I admit, it […]

Over the years of studying astrology one key theme for me has been how to take astrology’s mass popular appeal to the next level, so that it becomes more meaningful and thought provoking to a wider audience. The Faculty and other astrological groups provide the education for those already seriously interested in the subject to […]

When we talk about transits to the Ascendant, we usually think of the conjunction as being the most powerful. And indeed it is, for it generally heralds a process of rebirth, anything from a radical change in our appearance to a complete revision of how we see the world, and therefore act in it. Planets […]

Traveling is a great way to experience Mercury’s field of action, especially when it is retrograde. I just returned from a long trip to Brazil. My entire journey happened during Mercury’s retrograde phase and what a lesson that was in RE-learning, RE-viewing, RE-imagining, and RE-connecting. After many hours of flying and waiting at various airports, […]

The recent addition of a new optional half-module – The Astrology of the Family – to the Faculty’s course material has prompted me to look once again at my own family’s charts. One of the most important moments for me as a student of astrology was when I realised that no matter how familiar I […]

Ever since I first learned that Neptune symbolizes both glamour and spirituality, I’ve been trying to reconcile these two concepts as one archetype. My perspective has been shaped by a background that includes the practice of religions espousing a doctrine of asceticism, whereby glamour is seen as something “worldly” or “unspiritual”. One of the problems […]